Vladimir Putin is officially declared as election winner

Moscow. Today the official “Rossijskaja Gazeta” published the decree of the Central Election Commission on the outcome of the Presidential election. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is therefore officially the newly elected President.

Yesterday the commission – despite the continuing criticism of many violations and fraud – declared the election as conducted and valid.

The inauguration Putin’s is planned for the 7th May. Until then he would continue to keep his position and office as Prime Minister, according to the President elect. “There is enough work to do”, said Putin.

Zyuganov does not believe that Putin’s election victory is legitimate

Vladimir Putin received, according to the official results 45.6 million votes, equivalent to 63.3 percent. The runner up Gennady Zyuganov of the Communist Party received 17.2 percent and described the election as illegitimate and therefore refused to congratulate Putin.

The other three candidates accepted Putin’s election victory, however they still have reservations about electoral fraud and unequal conditions. Mikhail Prokhorov received in the end 8 percent, Vladimir Zhirinovsky received 6.2 percent and Sergey Mironov 3.9 percent.

Voter’s League believes ten percent of the votes are rigged

The protest movement for fair elections, “Voter’s League” believes, after a parallel addition of the know protocols from the polling stations that Vladimir Putin’s result had been manipulated and increased by around ten percent.

In reality, Putin would have had the support of 53 percent of all voters. This would have been enough for him to be elected in the first round.

The main victim of electoral fraud was Prokhorov, who in reality would have received around 16 percent instead of 7.98 percent.

Vladimir Putin appraised the level of vote-rigging at a maximum of 1 to 2 percent. Opposition groups estimate the fraud at around 5 to 15 percent.